Billiard-table



J. TURNER.

' BILLIARD TABLE.

APPLICATION nusn AUG.28, 1920.

Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

INVENTOR C/Zfi/Y 747/7752" ATTORNEY.

UNITED- STATES JOHN TURNER, OF DORGHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IBILLIARID-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August as, 1920. 'Seriai No.-406,568.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN TURNnR,a citizen of the United States, residing at Dorchester, in the county of Sufiolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement'in Billiard- Tables, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompan'ying drawings.

The immediate object of this invention is to improve materially the efiiciency of billiard tables, particularly the beds of the same, my purpose being to provide in combination with such beds a specially serviceable textile covering in which the working surface of said covering is formed entirely of wool of such texture and nap that the balls may roll freely thereon, said woolen face being closely interwoven with a cotton back of such weave and strength that it (the cotton back) serves to prevent the tearing or wrinkling of the woolen face by the rolling of the balls there on by reason of contact with a cue tip resulting from miss-plays. In order to further strengthen the fabric, and particularly to seal said fabric a ainst the sifting of chalk dust therethrough, I rubberize the said back.

For the purpose of explaining my invention clearly, I have provided the annexed drawings, in which the Figure 1 is a perspective view of a billiard'table embodying my present improvement and Fig. 2 is a relatively enlarged, transverse, sectional, view of said table, taken on the line 2-2 of said Fig. l. i

Fig. 3 is a further enlarged detail of a portion of the fabric which covers the bed of the table.

Referring to these drawings, the letter a indicates a billiard table constructed mainl in the usual manner, that is to say, wit

' sionally been utilized on the slate bed, it has been most common to cover said bed with a firmly woven sheet of cotton andwool fab- Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

ric which because of its common use, has become known in the trade as billiard cloth but such cloths are more or less unsatisfactory as they are easilywrinkled and torn by the cue action of careless players, and they also permit the finely powdered chalk from the cue tips to sift through the cloth and form ridges thereunder which prevents the free rolling ofthe balls. To overcome such ob ec tionable results and particularly to provlde a perfectly smooth and immovable field, throughout the table, forthe balls to roll on, I have combined with such tables a cloth ofthe type herein shown which-conslsts essentially of arubberized cotton back and woolen top, the construction or weave of the fabric being such that, in the operation of weaving, the wool weft is delivered under light tension and is thenbeaten up (into the relatively hard cotton warp) so hard that the wool is forced outward and upward thus completely coversand hides the cotton warp, and thus provides a surface for the balls to roll upon which is soft and offers practically no resistance to the rolling of the balls, while the relatively firmer and harder cotton back prevents the wool face of the fabric from stretching or wrinkling. As a result,of such special fabric construction, the balls run absolutely true along every part of the cloth. In the drawings 03 denotes the cotton warp, 6 denotes the woolen filling and f the rubber back.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim In combination with a table of the class referred to, a bed cloth comprising, in a single structure, a rubberized cotton warp back, and a wool top interwoven with said back and completely inclosin said warp.

J OH TURNER. 

